Basic benchmarks

[Yao Qi]

Michael Hope wrote:
> I've been checking over the benchmarks as a lead up to the 2010.09
> release.  We're in a good way compared to both 4.4.4 and 4.5.1 for
> most non-trivial tests.
>  * pybench is 10.9 % faster than 4.4.4 and 7.7 % faster than 4.5.1.
>  * linpack is 46.4 % faster than 4.4.4 and the same as 4.5.1.
>  * ffmpeg h.264 video decode (with hand written assembler versions
> turned off) is 15.4 % faster than 4.4.4 and 1.2 % faster than 4.5.1.
> 

Michael,
Do we plan to do size comparison for these benchmarks?

> 
> See http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/benchcompare for more.